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A tentative agreement valued at up to $100 million will be announced Monday for private investors to develop and manage the long underused Gary/Chicago International Airport and incubate businesses in the surrounding area, the Tribune has learned. The privatization venture marks a new effort to bolster Gary/Chicago's claim as the Chicago area's third airport, behind O'Hare International and Midway airports, while creating jobs and boosting the economy in northwest Indiana. Gary/Chicago currently offers no scheduled airline service.

A man found stabbed to death early this month in Gary has been identified as Summit man who disappeared after attending a Halloween party in Chicago, according to authorities and the man's family. Police had been searching for Emmanuel Dominguez, 30, since soon after he disappeared late on Nov. 1 or early on Nov. 2 after attending a Halloween party at a warehouse near Damen Avenue and Walnut Street in West Town, according to missing persons fliers circulated by his family. Dominguez's body was found in the 2700 block of Maryland Street in Gary the morning of Nov. 4, A Gary police officer patrolling the area about 11:20 a.m. saw a burned-out vehicle, and when he stopped to examine it, found legs sticking out of the trunk, according to Gary Police.

BEIJING, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke, whose term was marked by a dramatic diplomatic row over the fate of a human rights activist, said on Wednesday he will step down from his role early next year for personal reasons. Locke is the first American of Chinese descent to head the U.S. embassy in Beijing. His 2-1/2 years as ambassador were highlighted by a tussle over blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from house arrest to seek refuge in the embassy and secured a visa to study in the United States last year.

A Chicago attorney specializing in tax law has been barred from preparing most tax returns for anyone other than he and his family, following allegations that he helped customers - including former Bear Kyle Orton and other NFL players - falsely claim more than $16 million in improper tax credits, according to court records. Gary J. Stern consented to the civil injunction order, which was filed earlier this week, without admitting to the allegations against him. Stern, currently at Stahl Cowen Crowley Addis LLC, is not allowed to prepare tax returns for individuals, estates, trusts, partnerships or corporations, among others, according to the order.

One NFL coach falls ill on the golf course, and is undergoing open- heart surgery two days later. Another drops to his knees walking to the locker room at halftime of a nationally televised game, suffering what is later diagnosed as a mini-stroke. In a league that reports on the health of players on a daily basis, the health of coaches largely has been an afterthought. But after a weekend in which Denver's John Fox and Houston's Gary Kubiak suffered disturbing health scares, the intense pressure of their jobs has come under sharper scrutiny.

Relatives and donors gathered today to dedicate a gravestone for a Gary boy who was starved, beaten and locked in a cage for two years until he died at age 13 Christian Choate died in April 2009. He weighed less than 50 pounds at the time. His father, Riley Choate, and stepmother, Kimberly Leona Kubina, buried him in a shallow grave near their home in Gary, Indiana. His body was found in May 2011. His father was sentenced to 80 years in prison, and his stepmother was given 35 years behind bars.

An apparent lightning strike caused a house fire in Gary, Indiana this afternoon, leaving a man dead and a baby in critical condition, while in a separate incident also in Gary, a man working on a billboard was struck and killed by lightning. The fire department responded to a home in the 1100 Block of Jefferson Court after reports of smoke coming from the home, Gary Fire Department Chief of Operations Mark Jones told WGN-TV. The fire department searched the home and found the two boy and the man, both unconscious.

CNN is headed back in time with "The Sixties," a 10-part documentary series from Tom Hanks , Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog. Each episode will explore key moments of the 1960s, with archival newsreel footage, personal movies, and interviews with eyewitnesses to history. Historians including David McCullough, Robert Dallek and Robert Caro will lend their voices to the docuseries, along with veteran journos Dan Rather and Robert MacNeil. Hanks is in talks to narrate the project, and is exec producing alongside Goetzman through their shingle Playtone , and Herzog through Herzog & Company.

Two men are dead, a third man critically wounded and two women were taken to hospitals following an early morning shooting in Gary, Ind. that may have stemmed from a beating earlier in the night at a local tavern, officials said. Gary Police Chief Wade Ingram said police responded about 4 a.m. to a call of shots fired at a large group of people in the 9300 block of Sunrise Boulevard and found six shooting victims outside a residence there. Many of the group dispersed as police arrived, said the chief.

Age: 57 Writing letters since: 2010 (more than 13 published in the Tribune) Life story in 60 words or less: Grew up in West Rogers Park; attended Hebrew school. Graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in advertising; went on to receive a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law. A retired trial lawyer, husband and father; is on the Chicago Advisory Board for StandWithUs, which fights false propaganda against Israel. Self-description: Calls himself a "walking joke encyclopedia.